Adolescence articles from June 1997

Adolescence archives from June 1997

Parental influence on children's socialization to gender roles.
June 22, 1997... INTRODUCTION Children learn at a very early age what it means to be a boy or a girl in our society. Through myriad activities, opportunities, encouragements, discouragements, overt behaviors, covert suggestions, and various forms of guidance,...

Family stress, perception of pregnancy, and age of menarche among pregnant adolescents.
June 22, 1997... INTRODUCTION The number of adolescents who become pregnant in the United States each year has generated widespread public concern and has positioned adolescent pregnancy as a major social problem. Empirical data suggest that family stress,...

Language arts achievement level, attitude survey format, and adolescents' attitudes toward reading.
June 22, 1997... Numerous studies have focused on attitudes toward reading and how to measure such attitudes (e.g., Heathington & Alexander, 1978; Noland & Craft, 1976; Reeves & Thames, 1994; Roettger, 1980). In these studies, little attention focused on the...

A literature-based approach to teaching values to adolescents: does it work?
June 22, 1997... The intentional teaching of morals and values was common in American public education for almost three hundred years and had widespread public support until the 1930s. In recent years there has been a call by some educators for a return to a...

Late adolescents' perceptions of their caregiver's feeding styles and practices and those they will use with their own children.
June 22, 1997... This study examined associations between late adolescents' perceptions of their childhood caregivers' feeding styles and practices and their perceptions of those they will use with their children. Feeding style refers to the distribution of...

Agency, communion, and achievement motivation.
June 22, 1997... Current models of achievement motivation suggest links among students' beliefs about the nature of intelligence, their perceptions of themselves, their perceptions of elements within the learning context, and the sorts of achievement-related...

Adolescents and adults at the mall: dyadic interactions.
June 22, 1997... The interpersonal involvements of adolescents have always been of interest to developmentalists. Generally, adolescents have been observed to associate less frequently with adults than with peers (Berndt, 1982; Santrock, 1993). Often absent from...

The nature and amount of support college-age adolescents request and receive from parents.
June 22, 1997... Many researchers have suggested that children are able to increase their capacity to deal with aversive stressors through the use of social support (Cauce, Reed, Landesman, & Gonzales, 1990; Cutrona, 1990; Sandler, Miller, Short, & Wolchik, 1989;...

Economic hardship, family relationships, and adolescent distress: an evaluation of a stress-distress mediation model in mother-daughter and mother-son dyads.
June 22, 1997... Much research has shown that economic hardship is associated with distress in men, women, and children (McLoyd & Flanagan, 1990). Recent studies have gone beyond merely documenting the existence of associations between economic hardship and...

Parricide and violent crimes: a Canadian study.
June 22, 1997... Recently, Young (1993) demonstrated a negative correlation (r = -.59, p = .02) between parricide rates and the rates for criminal violence in the United States from 1977 to 1988. He also observed that the rates for patricide (r = -.62, p = .02)...

Sexual assault in school, mental health and suicidal behaviors in adolescent women in Canada.
June 22, 1997... There is a considerable literature on sexual harassment and assault in the workplace, colleges, and universities, but the literature in high schools in North America is slight. Since a U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1992 established that sexually...

Reliability and validity of Palestinian Student Alienation Scale.
June 22, 1997... As in most of European countries, concern about stress and post-traumatic syndrome in the life of Palestinian youth has increased. In addition, there are the usual sources of stress in this age group, such as pressures of physical and emotional...

A preliminary investigation of high-school counseling resources on the Cape Peninsula.
June 22, 1997... Educators and mental health care professionals have for several years advocated the idea that schools have an important role to play in the intellectual and emotional development of the child. Traditionally academic education has held prominence,...

Parental bonding and mental health in adolescence.
June 22, 1997... INTRODUCTION Bowlby (1969) and Ainsworth, Bell, and Stayton (1975) emphasized the central role of the relationship between parent and child in normal development. Bowlby postulated that the attachment behavior that we observe from six months...

Drug use and violent crime among adolescents.
June 22, 1997... INTRODUCTION The relationship between crime and the use of alcohol and other drugs has received a great deal of attention in previous research (Banay, 1942; O'Donnell, 1966; Harper, 1976; Shanok, Pincus, & Glaser, 1979; McCord, 1981; Gary,...

Children of alcoholics and adolescence: individuation, development, and family systems.
June 22, 1997... One of the most fascinating achievements of adolescence involves an individual's balance between separation-individuation and connectedness within the family. This praxis, individuation, is a developmental process involving the melding of such...

Male and female adolescents' perceived interpersonal communication skills according to history of sexual coercion.
June 22, 1997... Sexual coercion (the act of forcing, pressuring, or tricking persons into a sexual act against their will) is now known to be a common occurrence. An estimated 40% of girls are sexually coerced during childhood, almost half of women in college...

Explorations in a proposed national policy for children and families.
June 22, 1997... Significant social, economic, and demographic changes have occurred in families over the last three decades. These changes have had a pronounced impact on children; many now live with only one parent, typically mothers, and often lack consistent...

Nutrition knowledge among adolescent high school female athletes.
June 22, 1997... INTRODUCTION North Americans have become more physically active and are participating in exercise and diet programs for health, recreation, and well-being purposes. It has become important to clarify and quantify the specific elements which...

Adolescents' attitudes toward the death penalty.
June 22, 1997... Lester (1987) gave a list of twenty criminal acts to college students and police officers and found that the police officers checked an average of 10.7 acts as meriting the death penalty while the college students checked 8.6. The present Study...

Learning disabilities, crime, delinquency, and special education placement.
June 22, 1997... Crime statistics indicate that levels of academic achievement, school attendance and graduation rates play an important role in the involvement of youth in the criminal justice system. Research indicates that the level of education attained can...

Adolescent females' "voice" changes can signal difficulties for teachers and administrators.
June 22, 1997... Male and Female Learning Preferences Recent research in the area of adolescent moral development by Kohlberg and Gilligan, has noted different preferences in learning styles of adolescent females and males. Using Piaget's (1932/1965) genetic...

Attachment to parents and peers in late adolescence and their relationship with self-image.
June 22, 1997... INTRODUCTION Interpersonal relationships have been viewed by investigators as a primary means through which people develop identity and positive self-image throughout the life-span (Youniss, 1980; O'Donnell, 1976). Some researchers have...

Adolescent gender differences in time alone and time devoted to conversation.
June 22, 1997... One of the most important gender differences in western civilization involves the amount of emphasis placed on interpersonal relationships. Such relationships, especially those that are more intimate, are more salient in the lives of women and...